In order to qualify to win a copy of the book this month via this Facebook/Blog contest giveaway, you must complete the following task by Saturday, February 27 at 9PM EST. We will pick two winners via a random drawing and announce them on Facebook and here on this Blog the day after the contest ends.

1) Answer the below question via the comment section at the bottom of this blog post.

THE QUESTION:What do you love most about John Ford and/or his films?

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About the book: Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films—among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley—John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, he was reticent about his personal life. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to let his films speak for him. What mattered to Ford was always what was up there on the screen. Now, in this definitive look at the life and career of one of America’s true cinematic giants, noted biographer and critic Scott Eyman, working with the full participation of the Ford estate, has managed to document and delineate both aspects of John Ford’s life—the human and the legend.

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8 Responses to “Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford” Book Giveaway (February via Facebook and Blog)!

I’m impressed by the number of movies he made that were based on books and stayed true to the author’s intentions. It must have been difficult to not tamper with the stories and faithfully produce them as films. I know that isn’t easy, not a lot of directors do it as well as Ford did.

I love how John Ford shot his films; the vast landscapes, the flawed but fascinating characters and the situations they put themselves in. He actually made me like the Western genre. Some of his earlier films like The Informer and The Grapes of Wrath dealt so realistically and so beautifully about the human condition.